Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, headstrong, and eccentric women, MacLaine has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning seven decades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards. Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her acting debut as a teenager with minor roles in the Broadway musicals Oklahoma! and The Pajama Game. Following minor appearances as an understudy in various other productions, MacLaine made her film debut with Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble with Harry (1955), winning the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. She rose to prominence with starring roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Some Came Running (1958), Ask Any Girl (1959), The Apartment (1960), The Children's Hour (1961), Two for the Seesaw (1962), Irma la Douce (1963), and Sweet Charity (1969). A six time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983). Her other prominent films include The Turning Point (1977), Being There (1979), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Steel Magnolias (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Evening Star (1996), Bewitched (2005), In Her Shoes (2005), Valentine's Day (2010), and The Little Mermaid (2018). MacLaine has been the recipient of many honorary awards. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1995, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2013 for her contribution to American culture, through performing arts. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Apart from acting, MacLaine has written numerous books regarding the subjects of metaphysics, spirituality, and reincarnation, as well as a best-selling memoir, Out on a Limb (1983).
170 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 170
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Glee
2009
The View
1997
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Downton Abbey
2010
Champs-Elysées
1982
Tony Awards
1956
Only Murders in the Building
2021
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Beckmann
1999
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Oscars
1953
V Graham Norton
2002
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Goldene Kamera
1984
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Pebble Mill
1991
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Entertainment Tonight
1981
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
Système 2
1975
Der große Preis
1974
Please Turn the Page
1977
The Apartment
1960
In Her Shoes
2005
Harty
1983
Reflets de Cannes
1954
The Emmy Awards
1949
Talking Pictures
2013
Bewitched
2005
Steel Magnolias
1989
Joan of Arc
1999
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Ocean's Eleven
1960
Shirley's World
1972
Cannonball Run II
1984
Valentine's Day
2010
Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970
Rumor Has It...
2005
The Early Show
1999
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Out on a Limb
1987
Terms of Endearment
1983
Irma la Douce
1963
Defending Your Life
1991
Noelle
2019
Being There
1979
Bernie
2012
The Little Mermaid
2018
Sweet Charity
1969
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
Guarding Tess
1994
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
The Trouble with Harry
1955
Mrs. Winterbourne
1996
American Dreamer
2022
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Carolina
2003
Gambit
1966
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Closing the Ring
2007
Salem Witch Trials
2003
Laugh-In
1977
The Children's Hour
1961
Elsa & Fred
2014
What a Way to Go!
1964
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
Used People
1992
Wild Oats
2016
Salem Witch Trials
2002
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
A Change of Seasons
1980
The Celluloid Closet
1996
Woman Times Seven
1967
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
The Last Word
2017
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
Coco Chanel
2008
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
Bruno
2000
The Sheepman
1958
Can-Can
1960
Palme
2012
The Evening Star
1996
That's Dancing!
1985
All in a Night's Work
1961
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
The Turning Point
1977
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
1990
A Smile Like Yours
1997
Some Came Running
1958
Hot Spell
1958
Artists and Models
1955
My Geisha
1962
These Old Broads
2001
The Matchmaker
1958
A Heavenly Christmas
2016
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
2008
The Nutcracker
1973
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
Rescued from the Closet
2001
Madame Sousatzka
1988
Waiting for the Light
1990
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972
Get Bruce!
1999
Wide-Awake
2012
I Love Liberty
1982
Rat Pack
2022
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
Two Loves
1961
Commitment to Life
2023
Forever Hollywood
1999
Two for the Seesaw
1962
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018
Vittorio D.
2009
The West Side Waltz
1995
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
Ask Any Girl
1959
Vito
2011
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
2015
Bella!
2023
Career
1959
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001
Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
2002
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
1988
Desperate Characters
1971
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
2001
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
Circasia
1976
The Car That Became a Star
1965
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
1998
The Unknown Peter Sellers
2000
Shirley MacLaine... Illusions
1982
Year of the Woman
1973
Inside 'The Apartment'
2008
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
Men of Granite
2015
Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
1976
People Not Places
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Loving Couples
1980
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
1982
The Royal Variety Performance 1977
1977
Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent
2026
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
2015
The Shirley MacLaine Show
1985
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma
1969
Lucy Boomer
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The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
1977
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
1975
Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'
1980
Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine
2003
Margret and Stevie
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Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
1974
Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance
1983
Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout
1989